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Startup Capital Challenges Today May be Based in a Mismatch of Expectations

2 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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Tiger Buford and a co-speaker explain why raising startup capital has gotten harder. Serial entrepreneurs who once found funding easily now struggle because they assume past success still works. The real problem: founders expect that contacting enough investors will eventually land money, when the market has fundamentally changed.

I would say that it's, it's almost like the people who are serial entrepreneurs who have had an easier time raising capital in the past tend to be kind of, oh yeah, I did it, you know, 5 years ago. I can do it again now. Well, it's a much different environment now than 5 years ago.
I'm talking to startups every week and usually 1 or 2 new ones and they're just they are pitching and pitching and they're not getting any traction and they don't know why. And they, they think it's just going to take forever, you know, and it, and it may.
It's just a mismatch of expectations. You know, you can't reach out to 50 or even 100 investors and think, oh, you're going to get it done.